After a ten minute delay, the Flying Scotsman passed through Middlesbrough to cheers from the crowd.

However the famous train eventually passed through the town centre station where hundreds had gathered.

There were even more waiting at Gypsy Lane station, with a sea of people filling both sides of the junction at Nunthorpe to catch what could be a once-in-a-lifetime glimpse of the steam engine in action.

The train had made it to Teesside under its own steam, setting off from the National Railway Museum in York.

At some point there was a delay - announcements at Thornaby and Middlesbrough said because of trespassers, although a British Transport Police officer spoke to The Gazette to quash those rumours at Eaglescliffe.

The train has now left Teesside on its way to Grosmont in the North Yorkshire Moors.